After I dropped my kids off at school yesterday I went to the local airport to bum-around and look for a job (yeah, I'm unemployed again). I met an acquaintance on the ramp who was about to finish a checkout in the Grumman Widgeon that his employer had just purchased. As I was about to leave them alone to do their flight, they cordially invited me to ride along, saying, "We could use the ballast."! How could I have refused? Hehe.
This isn't my airplane to fly, but it sure was fun to sit in the back and be a passenger for a change!
RC